My job as an author - at least the way I think of it - is to make a story that is coded and puzzling enough to entice conversation and interpretation, but also to do the opposite: to make some things clear so that it is meaningful in some way, not just a random assemblage of ideas.
Shane Carruth
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I'm not certain that I draw from any one culture more than others. Many myths and legends of many different cultures are really the same story when you get to the heart of it. They are often cultural cautionary tales about how we should behave and how we should live.
Robert Jordan
LiveHeartCultureStoryYouOthers
If someone ever decides to tell my story, it will make for a typical masala movie.
Adnan Sami
StorySomeoneWillTellMakeMovie
Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.
Barack Obama
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I think the greatest thing about making a documentary is your ability to just follow the story and the subject.
Leslie Cockburn
StoryThinkFollowAbilityGreatest
I don't want to ever tell a stereotype joke for the sake of it. I'm going to tell the story that I feel is true.
Ronny Chieng
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I once dreamed a whole short story. Wrapped in its peculiar atmosphere, as if draped in clouds, I walked entranced to my desk at about 4 A.M. and typed it on to the screen.
Hilary Mantel
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Vince McMahon is an intimidating individual because of the amount of respect he commands because of what he's done for entertainment, turning the business into a billion dollar success story. He rarely sleeps. He's a workaholic. He's passionate. He loves what he does.
Mauro Ranallo
SuccessBusinessRespectStoryDone
In a lot of cases, as in Tom and Nicole's case, the tabloids were about to break the story, so they said just let the news out. And they called organizations such as ours.
Mary Hart
StoryNewsSaidOutBreakJust
I'm interested in telling a story about a gay man and what he's going through as an artist and as a lonely, single gay man. I want to reveal what I know about loneliness.
Jordan Gavaris
LonelinessManStoryLonelyArtist
As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative itself, but also in creating the emotional and psychological atmosphere of that narrative - the imaginative furniture, as it were, in which any story unfolds.
John Burnside
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Just about any story we think about doing, whether we've read it in a newspaper, heard it on the radio or come upon it through word of mouth - by the time you get there, every other network, cable station and talk show is already racing to the scene.
Connie Chung
TimeStoryThinkRacingDoingMouth
Every good love story is actually completely insane, completely mad.
Vicky Krieps
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Sometimes films ignore other points of view because it's simpler to tell the story that way, but the more genuine and sympathetic you are to different points of view and situations, the more real the story is.
Ang Lee
StoryViewIgnoreYouSometimesWay
No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnight.
Priscilla Presley
TogetherWomanAdventureStorySide
I have a very interesting story to tell, and people always want to hear about it. They know I'm a 9/11 widow, and I always get comments on that and being an actor and raising my daughters by myself.
LaChanze
MyselfPeopleStoryInterestingKnow
If the script is telling the story well, that is your inspiration, and you do not need to go somewhere else.
Tom Wilkinson
StoryYouGoNeedInspirationWell
Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
Edmund White
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I don't like that feeling of holding back difficult questions. I feel like the more I can be transparent in the way I approach a story, the more it makes a satisfying programme.
Louis Theroux
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Life is a story. You and I are telling stories; they may suck, but we are telling stories. And we tell stories about the things that we want. So you go through your bank account, and those are things you have told stories about.
Donald Miller
LifeStoryLife Is AYouGoWant
For the fiction students I teach, one of the most common mistakes is to start in the wrong place. Often the actual story doesn't begin until about a third of the way into their narratives. They start off instead with excessive scene-setting, metaphysical speculation, introducing nonessential dramatis personae, throat-clearing, etc.
Darin Strauss
MistakesStartStoryWrongPlace
The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.
Mel Brooks
CharacterStoryBackNeverAlways
Last Friday night, I Twitted a photograph of myself that I intended to send as a direct message as part of a joke to a woman in Seattle. Once I realized I posted to Twitter I panicked, I took it down and said that I had been hacked. I then continued with that story, to stick to that story which was a hugely regrettable mistake.
Anthony Weiner
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Documentaries are inherently instinctual; you're constantly moment to moment, determining what the best place for the camera is to tell the story, usually in service of natural lighting.
Rachel Morrison
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